“Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they don’t know what they are doing.” Dividing his garments among them, they cast lots.” (Luke 23:34 WEB)
While Jesus was in pain and suspended on the cross, He pleaded for the Father to forgive everyone who played a part in putting Him on the cross.
He invoked the Law of Unintentional Sin under the Law, to reduce the severity of their sins.
According to that law in Leviticus 4-5, sin committed in ignorance is less grievous than a deliberate sin and can be forgiven through a sin offering.
“Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, “Speak to the children of Israel, saying, ‘If anyone sins unintentionally, in any of the things which Yahweh has commanded not to be done, and does any one of them: if the anointed priest sins so as to bring guilt on the people, then let him offer for his sin, which he has sinned, a young bull without defect to Yahweh for a sin offering. He shall bring the bull to the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh; and he shall lay his hand on the head of the bull, and kill the bull before Yahweh.” (Leviticus 4:1-4 WEB)
Dear brethren, if Jesus was pleading mercy for the very ones who crucified Him and using all ways to mitigate their sentence, don’t you think that He’s forgiven you and is surely on your side—you, a child of God who has placed your faith in Him?
Let the following beautiful words give you assurance that God the Father and Jesus are both for you, not against you.
“What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who didn’t spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things? Who could bring a charge against God’s chosen ones? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? Even as it is written, “For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from God’s love, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” (Romans 8:31-39 WEB)
Abba Father loves you, justified you and has given you all things through Jesus’ finished work at the cross.
Jesus is sitting at His right hand, praying for you, helping you navigate all troubles in life.
If you have the wrong belief that God is out to punish you for your sins (which He already forgave you for) or is planning evil against you and your family to execute justice, that is the work of the devil who is lying to you in God’s name.
The devil wants you to think that God is angry with you because a believer who believes that God loves him/her is unshakable.
God’s love is your strength to overcome all things. His perfect and unchanging love for you—not your flimsy love for Him.
Say this to yourself: “Abba Father always loves me, Jesus is always for me, the Holy Spirit is always with me.”
If the triune God is always for you, nothing can come against you and win. Have a blessed and victorious day!
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